Mortar
Showing now in the Gallery
YOU ARE HERE: inside/outsized- Dana Depew and Mallorie Freeman
Hours- Wednesdays and Saturdays 12-4
"Welcome to Mortar Gallery and a distinct passage of the citywide outposts showcasing the 2022 CAN Triennial. YOU ARE HERE: inside/outsized is expressed in a two-part blend of installation works by Dana Depew and Mallorie Freeman. Addressing the Triennial's broader theme, YOU ARE HERE, Depew and Freeman approach topics of identity, impression and the molded traces of being seen, known, and recalled. importantly, the two artists approach these plateaus from very different inroads. While Freeman weaves a biographer's depiction of a more specific portrait of sorts, Depew looks broadly at the social (and often groveling) production of autobiography and attention. Where Depew skewers adulation and self-praise, Freeman looks within to an inspired acknowledgment of remembrance and imprint.
YOU ARE HERE: inside/outsized turns us topsy-turvy on a twofold tale of how we see ourselves and/within others. In parts sobering and serious and elsewhere side-eyed and tickling, this mashup theater leaves us filled with fondness, yet eerily empty, knowing our want of more may never be enough."
-Kristin Rogers
YOU ARE HERE: inside/outsized- Dana Depew and Mallorie Freeman
Hours- Wednesdays and Saturdays 12-4
"Welcome to Mortar Gallery and a distinct passage of the citywide outposts showcasing the 2022 CAN Triennial. YOU ARE HERE: inside/outsized is expressed in a two-part blend of installation works by Dana Depew and Mallorie Freeman. Addressing the Triennial's broader theme, YOU ARE HERE, Depew and Freeman approach topics of identity, impression and the molded traces of being seen, known, and recalled. importantly, the two artists approach these plateaus from very different inroads. While Freeman weaves a biographer's depiction of a more specific portrait of sorts, Depew looks broadly at the social (and often groveling) production of autobiography and attention. Where Depew skewers adulation and self-praise, Freeman looks within to an inspired acknowledgment of remembrance and imprint.
YOU ARE HERE: inside/outsized turns us topsy-turvy on a twofold tale of how we see ourselves and/within others. In parts sobering and serious and elsewhere side-eyed and tickling, this mashup theater leaves us filled with fondness, yet eerily empty, knowing our want of more may never be enough."
-Kristin Rogers